Phoxidas

Phoxidas (88 BC-) was a Greek mercenary who served under Cleopatra and then the Hidden Ones during the 1st century BC.

Biography
Phoxidas was born in Athens, Roman Greece in 88 BC, and he came to serve Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes in Egypt as a mercenary; he left behind his wife and children, as only his crewmates could handle his unapologetic eccentricity. In 68 BC, he briefly sailed with a group of Sicilian pirates before leaving them due to lifestyle differences. In 48 BC, he was hired by Aya of Alexandria and Cleopatra to assist them with delivering a bribe to Pompey the Great off Thera in the Mediterranean, and Phoxidas soon became one of Cleopatra's most loyal followers; he also hired Cleopatra's agent Damastes as his shield-bearer and right-hand man. That year, Phoxidas took part in two naval battles against Ptolemy XIII's fleets, and, in 47 BC, he co-founded the Hidden Ones at a tavern in Alexandria. He assisted Aya in her efforts to hunt down Lucius Septimius, the man who decaptitated Pompey, and he defeated the Romans in a naval battle off Antium in 46 BC.